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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements
Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017
Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658327
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Audiovisual services in Korea : market development and policies
Song, Yeongkwan - 2012
This paper reviews economic development and the regulatory environment of audiovisual services in the Republic of Korea … (hereafter, Korea). The paper specifically examines motion pictures and broadcasting, and discusses what drives or hinders the … quality content that can be shared locally and/or universally. As recently proven in Korea's film industry, Korean content …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530186
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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016
This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the past half-century. The gap … of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United States has decreased rapidly, as the Republic of Korea … conditional convergence theory. Cross-country regression further suggests that the Republic of Korea's catch-up to the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471510
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The impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on business in the Republic of Korea
Chŏng, In-gyo; Cho, Jungran - 2009
The Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) continues to promote an open-trade system via the conclusion of free trade … has implemented. However, the FTAs that are currently being implemented in Korea are said to be beneficial only to some … the currently implemented FTAs in Korea were concluded with small- and medium-sized developing countries. Moreover, within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901468
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Financial inclusion, regulation, and literacy in Uzbekistan
Ahunov, Muzaffar - 2018
The level of financial inclusion in Uzbekistan remains low: the majority of households and firms, rather than using formal finance, save and borrow informally, and few use digital finance products. Both indicate the high cost of finance as the top reason for not using it. Secondly, households,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893913
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Green services and emergence and recovery from the global economic slowdown in developing Asian economies
Stoughton, Mark; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2010
The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or "rebalancing" with an emphasis on service-sector development should be - and is becoming - one long-term response to the...
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Small and medium enterprises in Japan : surviving the long-term recession
Uchikawa, Shuji - 2009
The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the important role of supplying parts and components to LEs through subcontracting, many LEs have started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003927368
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Production networks, profits, and innovative activity : evidence from Malaysia and Thailand
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Krüger, Jens; Tuazon, Anna Mae - 2013
Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries' trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are rare. This paper uses firm-level data from the two most active ASEAN countries in production...
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Assessing the experience of South Asia-East Asia integration and India's role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
This paper examines the gains for South Asian economies from integrating with East Asia and India's role in this process. Evidence of increased pan-Asian integration exists but the process is uneven. Bilateral trade has grown. Bilateral foreign direct investment flows and free trade agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247521
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Service sector productivity and economic growth in Asia
Lee, Jong-Wha; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2014
This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and capital movements across industries and economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We...
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